Students

Students I have advised or served on committees for, with their dissertations, placements, and our joint work.

Ph.D. Main Advisor

Derek Dyal, University of Georgia, Ph.D. in progress

Joint work:

• Beyond Parallel Trends: An Identification-Strategy-Robust Approach to Causal Inference with Panel Data
• Causal Inference for Aggregated Treatment

Chengye Jia, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Labor Economics

First placement: Assistant Professor, Shandong University of Finance and Economics

Joint work:

• Inference on Counterfactual Transition Matrices

Sonia Karami, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

Dissertation: Essays on Developing Treatment Effect Set-ups in Interactive Fixed Effects Models

First placement: Data Scientist / Senior Quant, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Joint work:

• Treatment Effects in Interactive Fixed Effects Models with a Small Number of Time Periods, Journal of Econometrics, 2023

Emmanuel Tsyawo, Temple University, Ph.D. 2020

Dissertation: Estimating R&D Interaction Structures and Spillover Effects

First placement: Assistant Professor, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama

Joint work:

• Distributional Effects with Two-Sided Measurement Error: An Application to Intergenerational Income Mobility, Journal of Econometrics, 2026
• Beyond Parallel Trends: An Identification-Strategy-Robust Approach to Causal Inference with Panel Data
• Treatment Effects in Staggered Adoption Designs with Non-Parallel Trends

Qin Wei, Temple University, Ph.D. 2020

Dissertation: Essays on Banking Mergers and Acquisitions

First placement: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Afrouz Azadikhah-Jahromi, Temple University, Ph.D. 2019

Dissertation: Essays on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Labor Market

First placement: Assistant Professor, Widener University

Joint work:

• Heterogeneous Effects of Job Displacement on Earnings, Empirical Economics, 2022

Weige Huang, Temple University, Ph.D. 2019

Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Finance

First placement: Assistant Professor, Wenlan School of Business, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Current position: Associate Professor, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University

Joint work:

• Distributional Effects of a Continuous Treatment with an Application on Intergenerational Mobility, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020
• Local Intergenerational Elasticities, Economics Bulletin, 2019

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member

Dixit Poudel, University of Georgia, Ph.D. 2025

Dissertation: Emerging Issues in Economic Development: Digitalization, Disaster Resilience and Nutrition

First placement: Postdoctoral Associate, Applied Economics, University of Georgia

Hugo Sant'Anna, University of Georgia, Ph.D. 2025

Dissertation: Essays in Labor Economics: Environmental Shocks, Immigration, and Gender Wage Gap in Linked Employer-Employee Data

First placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Joint work:

• Difference-in-Differences with “Bad Controls”

Pablo Troncoso, University of Georgia, Ph.D. 2023

Dissertation: Essays in Formal Labor Supply and Intergenerational Mobility

First placement: Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Chenchen Xie, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Business Economics

M.A. Main Advisor

Stroud Payne, University of Georgia, M.A. 2022

Thesis: Difference-in-Differences with Time-Varying Covariates and Empirical Applications

Ph.D. program: Vanderbilt University

Joint work:

• Difference-in-Differences with “Bad Controls”